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70 Companies You Didn't Know Were Using Rails in 2025
For twenty-two years, thoughtbot has helped companies and organizations of all sizes build maintainable, scalable, and useful software. While Ruby on Rails is often associated with startups and MVPs, it’s also been quietly powering major systems i...
What we learned from creating PostCSS—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
In 2013, I decided I no longer wanted to manually manage vendor prefixes like -webkit- in CSS. At the time, the common solution was to use Sass mixins, but I wanted something more automatic. The best UI is just having your problem solved without a...
Ruby on Rails on WebAssembly: a guide to full-stack in‑browser action—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
Learn how to run a fully functional Ruby on Rails blog in your browser using WebAssembly—no servers needed; a complete guide to making Rails Wasm-readyImagine a fully functional blog running in your browser—not just the frontend, but the backend, ...
Rails (might be) Getting a Structured Event Reporting System (and It's Pretty Cool) | Prateek Codes - Learn Building Scalable Backend Systems
Most Rails developers have moved beyond the default string-based logging with gems like Lograge or Semantic Logger. But when it comes to tracking business events - user signups, order completions, feature usage - we’re still building custom soluti...
Simplicity, vanished?! Solving the mystery with Inertia.js + Rails—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
Has simplicity gone missing in web development? This investigative piece uncovers how Inertia.js + Rails defy JavaScript bloat and reclaim developer sanity.The front-end development racket has been running the same con for years now. Walk into any...
RailsConf Nostalgia: Remembering ActiveResource | Hashrocket
This year at the final RailsConf, the atmosphere was incredibly nostalgic and celebratory, if perhaps a little bittersweet. Many of the talks spent time looking back on how far we've come, including Robby Russell's "The Rails Features We Loved, Lo...
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